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Better Legislation Could Help Airlines

Updated June 24, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

Holman Jenkins's "The Second Death of the U.S. Airlines" (Business World, June 18) misses key points relative to the health of U.S. airlines. Both relate to prior and current lack of action on the part of Congress. The first was the failure to modify the railway labor act when the industry was deregulated. The delayed negotiations philosophy of the act simply does not work in a deregulated environment. The current lack of action relates to a need for some minimal degree of reregulation. Lower cost carriers will continue to limit attempts to move to a survivable average fare level.